New map

I finally got myself a new TCL map. It's been ages since I told myself I should do that. The lines have changed quite a lot...there are two new tram lines and several new "modern" buses. (and some lines made longer or shorter, etc)

Here are the two maps, old and new.


On the left, the September 2004 edition that I received upon arriving in INSA in August 2005. You can see how worn it is...it's been very useful! (which is also why I wanted a new, up-to-date one) My mother would say that it's "chut ciap" already :P (literally "keluar jus" for the Malaysians who don't understand Hokkien...for the others I don't think any other translation can do it justice :P )

Now the new one is the April 2009 edition. I guess it was right after they started the 4th tram line.

You know why this map is better than a simple map of Lyon? Of course, one of the reasons is that it has the public transport lines on it. But another reason is that it has Villeurbanne on it too! On the map of Lyon that I got from the tourism office, the Villeurbanne area is blocked by something...the names of the streets if I'm not mistaken. (it's in a corner of the map) But for TCL, Villeurbanne is just as important as Lyon ;)

(Actually part of why the old map is so worn out is because I left it in my backpack almost all the time during my first year in INSA, so it got lugged about everywhere)